Ush vs Hush - What's the difference?
ush | hush |
(colloquial, rare, transitive, and, intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
* 2000 , Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life , BalonaBooks (2006), ISBN 978-0-9765479-6-9, page 142:
to become quiet
to make quiet
To appease; to allay; to soothe.
* Otway
* Tennyson
A silence, especially after some noise
* Byron
A mining method using water
As verbs the difference between ush and hush
is that ush is to usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort while hush is to become quiet.As a noun hush is
a silence, especially after some noise.ush
English
Verb
(es)- And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.
hush
English
Verb
(es)- Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Noun
(-)- It is the hush of night.
- (Byron)